7080 AC ~ Jack Wheeler’s two Sprites pass to John Phillips ~ and who better to take care of them?

“I’ve known Jack all my life as I lived next door to his parents in Cheam, and used to help him with his various cars even before the Sprite came on the scene. I remember him taking me for a wild ride in his Bugatti Type 13 with a Brescia engine when I was only 4 or 5 years old in the mid 1950’s. I helped with the Ginetta G12 when he was building the Jerboa in 1969 and was part of the team when we took that car to the Targa Florio in 1970. Apart from Jack, I put in more hours than anyone helping in the rebuilding/ restoration work on the Sprites and ran the cars in at Dunsfold and Bruntingthorpe before we raced the car at Silverstone and Goodwood. I think that it’s safe to say that Mr Wheeler was the main reason I got involved in motorsport, be it rallying, racing, sprinting and hillclimbs! all the best, John”.

[Jack continues fit and well but, as he puts it “moving slowly”.]